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BeerPulse has learned what the two new beers will be this upcoming month in The Rare Beer Club: La Biere de Beloeil from Brasserie Dupont and Arctic Saison by Grassroots Brewing (brewed at/with Anchorage Brewing). While our full monthly post for The Rare Beer Club will come within the next week, we wanted to give readers a sneak peek since the latter is brewed by Shaun Hill. Hill is founder of Hill Farmstead which was named Brewery of the Year for 2012 by RateBeer so we are giving this beer a little extra attention.

You might be asking at this point, “What then is Grassroots Brewing?”

We posed this question to Hill: “Is Grassroots Brewing to Hill Farmstead as Richard Bachman is to Stephen King?”

Hill responded with, “Great analogy.”

That should answer the question sufficiently. Below is an excerpt from the upcoming Rare Beer Club write-up on the beer.

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The drive from Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont to Anchorage Brewing Co. in Alaska is a modest 78-hour, 4,300-mile jaunt. Distances of this length are why we invented airplanes, and thankfully the creative and collaborative inclinations of craft brewers tend not to give much thought to geographic remoteness. But the arrangement does beg the question of just how Hill Farmstead’s Shaun E. Hill and Anchorage’s Gabe Fletcher crossed paths.

Actually, the collaborative link between Shaun and Gabe has been developing for quite some time now. Gabe has family based in Vermont, and Shaun’s Grassroots Distribution handles the Anchorage beers in that state. The two regularly exchange details about fermentation and brewing in general, and Shaun’s recent venture out to Anchorage to attend The Culmination (Gabe’s jaw-dropping invitational beer festival) gave them an opportunity to brew something together on-site. We’re pleased to offer our members first crack at the exceptional outcome.

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With the exception of some West Coast retailers, The Rare Beer Club members will get it roughly two weeks before it hits the rest of the country.

Look for more details in the next week but don’t hesitate to order now. Note: this beer won’t show up on the Rare Beer Club site until Friday or next Monday but you can still order now.